Abstract

1. Introduction: Italian opera's fashions and legacies Hilary Poriss 2. Viardot sings Handel (with thanks to George Sand, Chopin, Meyerbeer, Gounod, and Julius Rietz) Ellen T. Harris 3. Partners in rhyme: Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaez, and foreign opera in Paris during the July Monarchy Mark Everist 4. Verdian opera in the Victorian parlor Roberta Montemorra Marvin 5. I falsi Puritani: the opera's early history in Italy Fabrizio Della Seta 6. To the ear of the amateur: performing Ottocento opera piecemeal Hilary Poriss 7. Peeping at pachyderms: convergences of sex and music in France around 1800 Jeffrey Kallberg 8. Aida and nine readings of 'empire' Ralph P. Locke 9. Comic sights: stage directions in Luigi Ricci's autograph scores Francesco Izzo 10. Staging and form in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello Andreas Giger 11. Stanislavski's La boheme (1927) David B. Rosen 12. What is tradition? Will Crutchfield 13. Epilogue: the art of 'translation' John Mauceri.

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